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sis for papers on other phases of the zoology of the region. Mr. 

 Harper is also with Dr. Wright. 



Dr. Lynds Jones will spend the summer months on another of 

 his transcontinental bird trips. He leaves Oberlin on June 23, 

 with a party of sixteen and travels by auto via the Iowa lakes, 

 through North Dakota and Montana, to and including the Yellow- 

 stone, from thence by way of Flathead Lake and Glacier Park, 

 over the Cascade to Ranier Park and the coast. The party will 

 there disband and Dr. Jones and his son have planned to make a 

 trip to Alaska following this auto ti'ip. The party will spend its 

 time studying the ornithology of the regions traversed. Fortunate 

 indeed are those who are able to go with our Editor on these tours. 



The annual meeting of the Nebraska Ornithological Union was 

 held at Omaha on May 13th and 14th. 



The organization of various state ornithological clubs is a most 

 commendable step toward the encouragement of serious bird study 

 and the cooperation of such workers in limited areas. Kentucky 

 has a most promising group of earnest bird students, who have 

 just formed the Kentucky Ornithological Society. This organiza- 

 tion limits its members to the few who are doing thorough and 

 systematic bird study and is entirely distinct from the several local 

 Audubon Societies now functioning in that state. The officers are 

 Dr. R. S. Tuttle of Lexington, President; Prof. Gordon Wilson of 

 Bowling Green, vice-president; Benj. J. Blincoe of Bardstown, 

 editor and curator; Brasher C. Bacon of Madisonville, secretary- 

 treasurer. 



John Burroughs, with whose writing on birds and popular nat- 

 ural history our readers are familiar, died on March 29th. Mr. 

 Burroughs was in his eighty-fourth year and was perhaps the 

 most widely read of all nature writers. 



The Secretary spent the last half of May among the swamps 

 and lakes of western Tennessee, listing and studying the birds of 

 that area. Extensive drainage operations have eliminated many 

 of the marshes and smaller lakes where water birds formerly bred. 



The joint spring meeting of the Indiana Academy of Science, 

 the Indiana Audubon Society and the Nature Study Club of In- 

 diana, was held at Indianapolis on May 27th and 28th. The two 

 days were spent afield visiting points near the city of especial in- 

 terest to the naturalist. A local committee arranged a most at- 

 tractive program and it is needless to say that the meeting afforded 

 an opportunity for field study and getting acquainted that was 

 most commendable. 



H. E. Wheeler of Conway, Arkansas, has been specializing this 

 spring on the nesting habits of the Pileated Woodpecker. He suc- 

 ceeded in finding six breeding pairs and added to his collection two 

 nice sets, of four and five eggs respectively. 



